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Australian Books

In the bunker

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

Bearing Witness: The remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia’s greatest war correspondent Peter Rees

Allen & Unwin, pp.568, $33, ISBN: 9781742379548

Defending Gallipoli: The Turkish Story Harvey Broadbent

Melbourne University Press, pp.306, $33, ISBN: 9780522864562

Wars make myths; probably no-one understood that better than Charles Bean, Australia’s first true war writer and a person who did more than most to create our national identity. So it is odd that his own story is often passed over, like a hidden foundation stone. But this study by Peter Rees, a journalist with a number of books behind him, sheds a good deal of light on Bean.

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